Saturday, March 16, 2019

Loom in action, small experiment with embroidery floss

The loom I'm building is moving along, and I learned quite a bit about threads and nuts. After a trip to the saintly staff of Smith's Ace hardware, I came home with a replacement couple of rods, plus hexnuts that fit.

Turns out there's nothing on the market to fit a metric left handed threaded rod. And their attempts to find, anywhere in the system, a couple of rods to size, having failed, they cut down a bigger one.

Huge effort for a small sale on their part. But I am very grateful. And I shipped back the rods that didn't work out.

Meanwhile. I'm testing the s hook loom with a little tapestry in embroidery floss.



It's working fine so far. Most regular weaving I've done up to now. And as you see, the s hooks are staying put.

On nonweaving subjects, yesterday I entered four artworks into the Preserve Annual Exhibit, involving handmade artist's book, painting, drawing, printmaking. I'll find out next week if I get anything in.

They were very interested in my offering possible weaving entries next year, so that presents me with a future goal.

1 comment:

  1. I had to study the pictures to figure out how you were using the S-hooks. Must have been a tad tricky getting them to sit still until you got the thread in place.

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